1997
DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(96)00676-1
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Non-abelian bosonization in two and three dimensions

Abstract: We discuss non-Abelian bosonization of two and three dimensional fermions using a path-integral framework in which the bosonic action follows from the evaluation of the fermion determinant for the Dirac operator in the presence of a vector field. This naturally leads to the Wess-Zumino-Witten action for massless two-dimensional fermions and to a Chern-Simons action for very massive three dimensional fermions. One advantage of our approach is that it allows to derive the exact bosonization recipe for fermion cu… Show more

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“…The other delta completes the identification (70) (These kind of representations are discussed in detail in [22]). One now introduces a Lagrange multiplier a in order to represent the curvature's delta function.…”
Section: The Bosonization Recipementioning
confidence: 73%
“…The other delta completes the identification (70) (These kind of representations are discussed in detail in [22]). One now introduces a Lagrange multiplier a in order to represent the curvature's delta function.…”
Section: The Bosonization Recipementioning
confidence: 73%
“…It is well known [32,33,34] that in ordinary commutative geometry the bosonization of N free massless fermions in the fundamental representation of SU(N ) gives rise to a WZW model for a scalar field in SU(N ) plus a free scalar field associated with the U(1) invariance of the fermionic system. In the noncommutative case the bosonization of a single massless Dirac fermion produces a noncommutative U(1) WZW model [35], which becomes free only in the commutative limit.…”
Section: Noncommutative Integrable Sigma Model In 2+1 Dimensionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our derivation is carried out for the abelian case (and will largely follow [14]) but as we shall see it generalizes immediately to the non-abelian case [15]. In [15] it was shown that a conventional free fermionic theory in 1 + 1 dimensions…”
Section: Bosonization On Noncommutative Spacementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Using the path-integral approach to bosonization [14,13] one starts with the partition function of the free (abelian) fermion theory:…”
Section: Definition Of the Currentmentioning
confidence: 99%